Turning off the TV!?! HELP!!!
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Sandy, I feel your pain. My dd is just 10 mo old. I have been lurking here for a while since I have decided to homeschool, but I felt I must let you know that you are not alone.
When I had her and decided to be a stay-at-home mom, one of the first things I decided to do was turn the TV off. I started looking at the TV as a mom and I was MORTIFIED. I now know (at least just a teeny bit) how an addicted smoker must fee. That thing sits in the corner of the family room like a tempting siren. But I am doing it.
What helped was listening to the radio instead. I found that if I plopped in front of the TV I stayed there. If I had the radio on, I wasn't watching and started to get things done. My productivity at home has been helped.
We also have local weather channel that just does weather with a couple local commercials, some local camera shots, and music background with a news scrawl across the bottom. If I need a "fix" this seems to do it and my dd isn't exposed to talking news heads and visually awful stuff that you would get on CNN, etc.
I have to say that if I can get this particular monkey off my back, my next stop is a diet. This time it might work.
When I had her and decided to be a stay-at-home mom, one of the first things I decided to do was turn the TV off. I started looking at the TV as a mom and I was MORTIFIED. I now know (at least just a teeny bit) how an addicted smoker must fee. That thing sits in the corner of the family room like a tempting siren. But I am doing it.
What helped was listening to the radio instead. I found that if I plopped in front of the TV I stayed there. If I had the radio on, I wasn't watching and started to get things done. My productivity at home has been helped.
We also have local weather channel that just does weather with a couple local commercials, some local camera shots, and music background with a news scrawl across the bottom. If I need a "fix" this seems to do it and my dd isn't exposed to talking news heads and visually awful stuff that you would get on CNN, etc.
I have to say that if I can get this particular monkey off my back, my next stop is a diet. This time it might work.
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